Why do Fitness deals always get down voted?

Nov 29, 2012 5:23 PM

First off i would like to say every deal that i have seen for Fitness gets down voted.. it doesn't make sense to me, either it's a deal that helps people out with discounts or free things.. they seem to get down voted..

my logic is it's either people who never tried the company or it's that the deal doesn't appeal to them.. i thought this was a website to promote deals.. and discounts.. and it's really frustrating to see good deals get taken down because of a down votes.

am i the only one to feel this way? Down voters need to explain their down votes.

Top Answers

As has been cussed and discussed since voting was allowed, it's all about perspective.

While you feel it's a good deal just doesn't make it so. There are plenty of "fitness" related deals that do get upvotes.

And even if people that voted against something explained their point of view, you still may not understand...it's simply their point of view. I'm sure some of them wouldn't understand why you thought something was a good deal.

@sennetb: Reading a deal and posting on it does not necessarily mean a wooter should upvote it. Upvoting is for deals they think are good (or funny, or ironic, or whatever drives their vote). Not just because they read it and had something to say about it.

As has been cussed and discussed since voting was allowed, it's all about perspective.

While you feel it's a good deal just doesn't make it so. There are plenty of "fitness" related deals that do get upvotes.

And even if people that voted against something explained their point of view, you still may not understand...it's simply their point of view. I'm sure some of them wouldn't understand why you thought something was a good deal.

@sennetb: Reading a deal and posting on it does not necessarily mean a wooter should upvote it. Upvoting is for deals they think are good (or funny, or ironic, or whatever drives their vote). Not just because they read it and had something to say about it.

@sennetb: I can only downvote something once. If you're seeing more downvotes, that's just popular opinion on the matter. At least I'm not being so juvenile as to go through your entire deals history and downvoting every single deal you've ever posted.

@sennetb: The Internet's a very public place. There's really not as much anonymity as you imagine. Especially when simply doing a google search of your last name and cellucor and seeing your twitter feed as the first result. I had only posted it as a warning to other buyers so they have all the facts.

Then again, you never actually had to speak the words and confirm it really was you.

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Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

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But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

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